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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Floral Maturation: How the sunflower gets its rings

    Young-Joon Park, Pil Joon Seo
    The circadian clock may help to control the development patterns which allow the florets on a sunflower head to go through their final stages of maturation at precisely the right time.
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    1. Plant Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of Dunaliella photosystem II reveals conformational flexibility of stacked and unstacked supercomplexes

    Ido Caspy, Maria Fadeeva ... Nathan Nelson
    Photosystem II, the pigment-protein complex responsible for water oxidation in photosynthesis, was found to exist in two different core conformations with altered antennae connectivity.
    1. Plant Biology

    Mimicking genuine drought responses using a high throughput plate assay

    Stephen Gonzalez, Joseph Swift ... Joseph R. Ecker
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Plant Biology

    Seed Dispersal: Deciding when to move

    Lauren Sullivan
    Dandelion seeds respond to wet weather by closing their plumes, which reduces dispersal when wind conditions are poor.
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    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Plant Biology

    Environmental morphing enables informed dispersal of the dandelion diaspore

    Madeleine Seale, Oleksandr Zhdanov ... Naomi Nakayama
    The dandelion diaspore changes its shape depending on the moisture levels in the air, and this morphing enhances the dispersal potential of the seeds regardless of the weather conditions.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Opposite polarity programs regulate asymmetric subsidiary cell divisions in grasses

    Dan Zhang, Roxane P Spiegelhalder ... Michael T Raissig
    The formation of stomatal 'helper cells' (=subsidiary cells) in grasses requires two opposing polarity domains with diverse roles in establishing division asymmetry.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Plant Biology

    Evolutionary gain and loss of a plant pattern-recognition receptor for HAMP recognition

    Simon Snoeck, Bradley W Abramson ... Adam D Steinbrenner
    A plant immune receptor evolved recognition of caterpillar peptides through key molecular changes.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Plant Biology

    Acetylation of a fungal effector that translocates host PR1 facilitates virulence

    Jingtao Li, Xiaoying Ma ... Wenxing Liang
    Acetylation stabilizes a fungal effector to mis-localize a key defense protein, leading to compromised immunity of host plants.
    1. Plant Biology

    Unbiased proteomic and forward genetic screens reveal that mechanosensitive ion channel MSL10 functions at ER–plasma membrane contact sites in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Jennette M Codjoe, Ryan A Richardson ... Elizabeth S Haswell
    A mechanosensitive ion channel physically and genetically interacts with proteins that function at endoplasmic reticulum–plasma membrane contact sites.
    1. Ecology
    2. Plant Biology

    Rapid transgenerational adaptation in response to intercropping reduces competition

    Laura Stefan, Nadine Engbersen, Christian Schöb
    Annual crop communities are able to adapt towards reduced competition and/or increased facilitation in response to their neighboring diversity after only two generations.